Archives for postgresql

decent postgreSQL install on OSX

public service announcement I need a good database to run locally. When I Google for ‘postgreSQL OSX’ I see a lot of old posts that start with ‘download and build readline’. No wonder people still use MySQL. If you’re on a Mac use EnterpriseDBs installer. It’s up to date and you get a reasonably sane [...]

told you

Glassfishv2 and PostgreSQL (open source, free) now officially wizz all over BEA, IBM and Oracle (proprietary, hideously expensive). Feels good to have backed a winning horse. There’s another beta out now too that I’ll be upgrading my existing install to when I get five minutes. In the meantime, congratulations to the GF team.

roller on glassfish

Update: roller 4 is a lot faster to setup than 3; see here.   Now my appserver and database are setup, I can install something. Right on cue, Roller 3.1 shipped . Looks pretty good too. WARmonger I want to deploy from a WAR file, but they don’t ship a prebuilt one (a GPL thing ?). So I’ll [...]